"Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy Hansel and Gretel is a 1954 stop motion animated theatrical feature film released by RKO. The film is based on Engelbert Humperdinck's opera ""Hänsel und Gretel"", and incorporates music and songs from the opera. It was the first American feature-length animated film not made by Disney since 1941's ""Mr. Bug Goes to Town"" and the first American feature-length animated film not made with traditional animation. It was released on October 10, 1954 in New York City without a distributor. Producer Michael Myerberg released the film himself. Based on the positive reviews and box office"
"Hansel and Gretel ""Hansel and Gretel"" (; also known as ""Hansel and Grettel"", ""Hansel and Grethel"", or ""Little Brother and Little Sister""; ) is a well-known fairy tale of German origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister kidnapped by a cannibalistic witch living in a forest, in a house constructed of cake, confectionery, candy, and many more treats than are imaginable. The two children escape with their lives by outwitting her. The tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera ""Hänsel und Gretel"" (1893) by"
"Stahnsdorf near Berlin. For a list of Humperdinck's pupils, see . In 1965, British singer Arnold Dorsey named himself after the composer. The main belt asteroid 9913 Humperdinck, discovered in 1977, was named after the composer. Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) Engelbert Humperdinck (; 1 September 1854 – 27 September 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera ""Hansel and Gretel"". Humperdinck was born at Siegburg in the Rhine Province in 1854. After receiving piano lessons, he produced his first composition at the age of seven. His first attempts at works for the stage were two singspiele written when he"
"Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) Engelbert Humperdinck (; 1 September 1854 – 27 September 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera ""Hansel and Gretel"". Humperdinck was born at Siegburg in the Rhine Province in 1854. After receiving piano lessons, he produced his first composition at the age of seven. His first attempts at works for the stage were two singspiele written when he was 13. His parents disapproved of his plans for a career in music and encouraged him to study architecture. Nevertheless, he began taking music classes under Ferdinand Hiller and Isidor Seiss at the Cologne Conservatory in"
"Matthias Hues Matthias Hues (born 14 February 1959) is a German-born, naturalized American actor and martial artist. He was born in Waltrop, Germany, to Dr. Josef Hues and Maria Humperdinck Hues who still resides in Germany. Maria is the niece of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of the opera ""Hansel and Gretel"". After graduating from school, Hues moved to Paris to enter hotel management. Once there he joined a health club in Paris, which had just been bombarded with the new Jane Fonda aerobic exercise program from the United States. Hues recognized an opportunity and after returning to Germany opened two health"
"after a short illness on January 6, 1963, at Montefiore Hospital, in the Bronx, New York. Lina Abarbanell Lina Abarbanell (January 3, 1879 – January 6, 1963) was a German-American soprano singer who performed in grand and light opera and musical comedy. She made her debut at sixteen at the Neues Theatre, Berlin and was first introduced to American theatergoers in 1905 as the soubrette in the Josef Strauss operetta ""Frühlingsluft"" (""Spring Air""). Abarbanell made opera history later that year as Hänsel in The Met's debut production of Engelbert Humperdinck's ""Hänsel und Gretel."" Abarbanell spent the following near thirty years"
"Trudeliese Schmidt Trudeliese Schmidt (7 November 1942 − 24 June 2004) was a German operatic mezzo-soprano who had an international career, performing at major opera houses and festivals in Europe. The singer with a remarkable stage presence excelled in trouser roles such as Cherubino, Idamante, Hänsel, Octavian and the composer in ""Ariadne auf Naxos"". She performed in premieres of operas by Isang Yun and Manfred Trojahn. Born in Saarbrücken, Schmidt studied voice and made her debut at the Saarbrücken Opera as Hänsel in Humperdinck's ""Hänsel und Gretel"". She became a member of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and in 1969 of"
"general in """" (1991). Hues is one of the few foreign actors who has lost his accent to the extent that many people in his own country are unaware he is from Germany. Matthias Hues Matthias Hues (born 14 February 1959) is a German-born, naturalized American actor and martial artist. He was born in Waltrop, Germany, to Dr. Josef Hues and Maria Humperdinck Hues who still resides in Germany. Maria is the niece of Engelbert Humperdinck, composer of the opera ""Hansel and Gretel"". After graduating from school, Hues moved to Paris to enter hotel management. Once there he joined a"
"Friederike Sophie Seyler Friederike Sophie Seyler or F.S. Seyler, formerly Friederike Sophie Hensel (1737 or 1738, Dresden – 22 November 1789, Schleswig, née Sparmann; also referred to as ""Sophie Friederike""), was a German actress, playwright and librettist. Alongside Friederike Caroline Neuber, she was widely considered Germany's greatest actress of the 18th century. Her libretto for the Singspiel ""Oberon"" (originally titled ""Huon and Amanda"") was a major inspiration for Emanuel Schikaneder's libretto for the opera ""The Magic Flute"". She was briefly married to the actor Johann Gottlieb Hensel and then married the famous theatre director Abel Seyler. As an actress, she"
"Christian Heinrich Postel Christian Heinrich Postel (11 October 1658 – 22 March 1705) was a German jurist, epic poet and opera librettist, who wrote 28 libretti for the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg: set by composers such as Johann Philipp Förtsch, Reinhard Keiser and Georg Philipp Telemann. His texts for a ""St John Passion"" were set by composers Christian Ritter, Johann Mattheson and Johann Sebastian Bach in their respective ""St John Passion"". Postel was born in , the son of the theologian Lorenz Postel and his wife Dorothea, née Isentrut. His father was a minister at the """" in Hamburg."
"of Music and Dramatic Art."" Battaglia's teaching was so influential that for the 1991–1992 opera season's opening night at Teatro Regio in Torino, conductor Maurizio Benini cast Humperdinck's ""Hansel and Gretel"" entirely from Battaglia's studio of singers. No event like this had ever happened before in Italy. In 1987, he was awarded the Hugo Wolf Medal from the International Hugo Wolf Society of Vienna for his artistic achievements. Elio Battaglia Elio Battaglia, is an Italian baritone, singing teacher, and author and lecturer in music. He was the founder and director of the course entitled, ""Il Lied Tedesco"" (""German Song""), which"
". . . the rest of the production is of similarly high quality."" ""Mr. Bruce conducted, from the harpsichord, members of the festival orchestra and a strong cast."" (A complete live recording of the work can be found online at NPR's ""World of Opera"".) ""Hansel and Gretel"", an opera in two acts and nine scenes, based on a libretto adapted by the composer from the Brothers Grimm, was commissioned by Connecticut Opera and premiered by the company on March 20, 1998 in Hartford, CT. The company toured a condensed version for children in 1997. In an enthusiastic review of the"
"Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra to name just a few. Henschel can be heard on more than a dozen recordings, including Isaac Albéniz’s ""Merlin"" with Plácido Domingo, which won a 2001 Grammy Award, and Engelbert Humperdinck's ""Hänsel und Gretel"", which won a 2008 Grammy Award. Henschel sang the role of Brangaene in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. The opera originally cited, Die Walkuere, does not have the role of Brangaene, which is scored for mezzo-soprano. Reference: New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1952, chapter on Wagner's operas with"
"16 November 1894. The first performance in England was in London on 26 December 1894, at Daly's Theatre and its first United States performance was on 8 October 1895 in New York. The first performance in Australia was on 6 April 1907, at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne. In English-speaking countries ""Hansel and Gretel"" is most often performed in English. The longtime standard English translation was by Constance Bache. In the United States the opera was often performed in a translation by Norman Kelley written for the Metropolitan Opera's 1967 production by Nathaniel Merrill and Robert O'Hearn. In 1987 a darkly"
"the Gran Teatre del Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. In 1887, he returned to Cologne. He was appointed professor at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1890 and also teacher of harmony at Julius Stockhausen's Vocal School. By this time he had composed several works for chorus and a ""Humoreske"" for small orchestra, which enjoyed a vogue in Germany. Humperdinck's reputation rests chiefly on his opera ""Hänsel und Gretel"", which he began work on in Frankfurt in 1890. He first composed four songs to accompany a puppet show his nieces were giving at home. Then, using a libretto by his sister"
"The Truth About Hansel and Gretel The Truth About Hansel and Gretel () is a book written by German caricaturist Hans Traxler, which was published in 1963. The book purports to tell the story of how teacher Georg Ossegg uncovered archeological evidence of the ""real"" Hansel and Gretel in 1962. According to the book, Ossegg had determined that the fairytale, ""Hansel and Gretel"", was based on the story of a baker named Hanz Metzler and his wife Grete. According to the book, Hans and Grete Metzler lived in a village in the Spessart Forest during the Thirty Years War, and"
"Adelheid Wette rather loosely based on the version of the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, he composed a singspiel of 16 songs with piano accompaniment and connecting dialogue. By January 1891 he had begun working on a complete orchestration. The opera premiered in Weimar on 23 December 1893, under the baton of Richard Strauss. With its highly original synthesis of Wagnerian techniques and traditional German folk songs, ""Hansel and Gretel"" was an instant and overwhelming success. ""Hansel and Gretel"" has always been Humperdinck's most popular work. In 1923 the Royal Opera House (London) chose it for their first complete"
"and the Metropolitan Opera House, brought Abarbanell to New York. Her American debut came that October at Irving Place in ""Fruehlingsluft"" (""Spring Breezes"") followed a month later playing Lt. Von Vogel in ""Jung Heidelberg"" (""Young Heidelberg""), a comic opera with music from Carl Millöcker and book by Leopold Krenn and . Her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House as Hänsel to Bella Alten's Gretel came on November 25, 1905. Over the run of ""Hänsel und Gretel"" the two would at times switch roles. After honing her language skills Abarbarbanell made her English-speaking debut at the Garden Theatre on Christmas Day,"
"Lina Abarbanell Lina Abarbanell (January 3, 1879 – January 6, 1963) was a German-American soprano singer who performed in grand and light opera and musical comedy. She made her debut at sixteen at the Neues Theatre, Berlin and was first introduced to American theatergoers in 1905 as the soubrette in the Josef Strauss operetta ""Frühlingsluft"" (""Spring Air""). Abarbanell made opera history later that year as Hänsel in The Met's debut production of Engelbert Humperdinck's ""Hänsel und Gretel."" Abarbanell spent the following near thirty years performing on Broadway and at venues across America. After her husband's death in 1934, Abarbanell left"
"Anja Kampe Anja Kampe is a German-Italian operatic soprano, born 1968 in the GDR. She is notable for her performances in major opera houses of the works of Richard Wagner and other German and Austrian composers. Kampe was born in Zella-Mehlis, Thuringia, and studied in Dresden and then, having moved to Italy, in Turin, where she studied with Elio Battaglia and made her professional debut in 1991 in a production of ""Hänsel und Gretel"". She sang the roles of Freia in ""Das Rheingold"" and Gerhilde (""Die Walküre"") at the Bayreuth Festival in 2002, Leonore in ""Fidelio"" with Glyndebourne Festival Opera"
"to play together on stage and in films. They had no children. Pavlow was inducted into the actors' care home and charity Denville Hall and was active on its management committee. Muriel Pavlow Muriel Lilian Pavlow (born 27 June 1921 in Lewisham, South East London) is an English actress. Her mother was French and her father was Russian. She began work as a child actress with John Gielgud and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. In December 1937, at sixteen, she played the role of Gretel in a BBC-TV production of ""Hansel and Gretel"". During the war, she was in ENSA and"
"several theatre productions and wrote the children's opera ""Hansel and Gretel"" (2001). Gerard Beljon Gerard Beljon (16 April 1952, Utrecht) is a musician and composer from the Netherlands, specialising in chamber and choral music with contemporary resonances. His works have been performed in Austria, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Russia and the United States. Beljon studied both lute and guitar at the Utrechts Conservatorium and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He studied composition under Carlos Michans and Daan Manneke. Beljon's musical career has been primarily devoted to composition, which he studied with Daan Manneke at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. According"
"In both 1969 and 1991 Marienberghausen won the German federal competition ""Unser Dorf soll schöner werden"" (""Our village shall become more beautiful""). It is also the birthplace of the opera ""Hänsel und Gretel"", composed here by Engelbert Humperdinck and also first performed here. The ""Oberbergische Postkutsche"", a mail coach, runs between Nümbrecht and Wiehl every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from May to the end of October. It is a reproduction of the mail coach of the Imperial Post Office around 1871. The column well fountain in the health resort park was created by sculptor Michael Schwarze. It was built for"
"The Nightingale and the Rose (opera) The Nightingale and the Rose (Russian: ""Соловей и роза"" – ""Solovey i roza"") is a chamber opera in one act (five scenes) by Russian composer Elena Firsova (Op. 46, 1990–1991) written to her own English libretto after Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name together with poetry by Christina Rossetti. The opera was written at the request of Paul Esterházy, the director of the Ulm Theatre in Germany. Firsova created the libretto combining the text from Oscar Wilde's fairy-tale, taken from the collection ""The Happy Prince and Other Stories"" (1888), with four poems by"
"Marie Te Hapuku Marie Te Hapuku (formerly Marie-Adele McArthur) is an operatic soprano from Gisborne, New Zealand, and is a direct descendant of the Māori chief, Te Hapuku. She made her professional debut with Utah Opera as Hänsel in Engelbert Humperdinck's ""Hänsel und Gretel"". She went on to sing in the San Francisco Opera's Merola Opera Program and gave notable performances in Western Opera Theater's national touring production of ""Die Fledermaus"". Te Hapuku has been the recipient of several awards and has won several major competitions including the Jay Darwin Memorial Award for the San Francisco Opera Auditions, the Sir"
"Franziska Gottwald Franziska Gottwald (born in Marburg) is a German mezzo-soprano singer in opera and concert. Franziska Gottwald received her first voice training at the age of 16 with Eugen Rabine and studied voice at the Academies of Music in Saarbrücken, Hannover and Weimar. She has appeared at the Staatsoper Hannover as a guest artist and has been a member of the ensemble of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar from 1998 for four years, singing parts such as Hänsel in ""Hänsel und Gretel"", Cherubino in ""Le nozze di Figaro"" and Frau Reich in ""Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor"". In 2004, she"
"role of the vain but ugly marsh nymph in Rameau's ""Platée"" is also for an haute-contre. Female roles in opera sung by men can still be found, although they are not common. The role of the witch in Humperdinck's 1890 opera ""Hänsel und Gretel"" was originally written for a mezzo-soprano, but was sung by the tenor Philip Langridge in the Metropolitan Opera's 2009 production directed by Richard Jones. Azio Corghi's 2005 opera ""Il dissoluto assolto"", which incorporates story elements from Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"", casts a counter-tenor in the role of the mannequin of Donna Elvira. The portrayal of women by"
"were usually based on stories from Germanic or Arthurian legend. Finally, Wagner built his own opera house at Bayreuth, exclusively dedicated to performing his own works in the style he wanted. Wagner's innovations cast an immense shadow over subsequent composers, who struggled to absorb his influence while retaining their own individuality. One of the most successful composers of the following generation was Humperdinck, whose ""Hänsel und Gretel"" (1893) still has an assured place in the standard repertoire. Humperdinck turned back to folk song and the tales of the Brothers Grimm for inspiration. Yet, though ""Hänsel"" is often viewed as the"
"Thomas Fulton Thomas Fulton (September 18, 1949 - August 4, 1994), was an American conductor. Noted primarily for his work in opera, Fulton debuted at the Metropolitan Opera of New York City in 1979 and remained with the company until his death. He conducted 192 performances at the Met of over 20 operas in the Italian, French and German repertoires. A 1982 performance he conducted of Humperdinck's ""Hansel and Gretel"" was telecast on PBS and remains available on video as a DVD. Fulton was also associated with Orchestre National de France, and the Paris Opera among other companies in France"
"Neidlinger, Hans Hopf, Hans Sotin, Franz Crass and Josef Greindl. Many of these interviews can now be viewed on YouTube, in German. Many of his classic productions are preserved on DVD, including ""Hänsel und Gretel"" (1981) (Deutsche Grammophon B000AXSKB8), and ""Die Zauberflöte"" (Deutsche Grammophon B000ASAEQW). He was one of the founder members of a society of the revolutionary thoughts on theaters and individual thinking and this was reflected in his works. August Everding August Everding () (31 October 1928; Bottrop, Germany – 26 January 1999; Munich) was a German opera director and administrator. He studied at the Universities of Bonn"
"years later he transferred as a student of composition to the master-class of Engelbert Humperdinck (best known as the creator of the opera ""Hänsel and Gretel""), who became a fatherly friend to him and arranged for him to obtain a position as conductor at the New Theatre in Berlin, where, among other works, he conducted Humperdinck's music for Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". Soon after this Schmalstich won a whole range of Academy awards. In 1910 his friend Leo Blech summoned him to the Royal Opera in Berlin, where Schmalstich worked as Kapellmeister (orchestral conductor) until 1919 alongside Blech, Richard Strauss and"
"""Hänsel und Gretel"". The series came about as the Met, financially endangered in the early years of the Great Depression, sought to enlarge its audience and support through national exposure on network radio. Initially, those broadcasts featured only parts of operas, being limited to selected acts. Regular broadcasts of complete operas began March 11, 1933, with the transmission of ""Tristan und Isolde"" with Frida Leider and Lauritz Melchior. The live broadcasts were originally heard on NBC Radio's Blue Network and continued on the Blue Network's successor, ABC, into the 1960s. As network radio waned, the Met founded its own Metropolitan"
"in Rockland, Massachusetts. Norman Kelley Norman Kelley (August 27, 1911 – September 4, 2006) was an American operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1940s through the 1970s. He was notably a regular performer at the Metropolitan Opera between 1957 and 1961, and he sang in several world premieres with the New York City Opera. He also notably translated Engelbert Humperdinck's ""Hänsel und Gretel"" into English, a version first performed in 1967 and used by opera companies to this present day. Kelley was born and raised in Eddington, Maine, the oldest child of John Kelley and Janet"